• “It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that
    he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own
    industry, honesty and intelligence.”

    – Review of Reviews, January 1897

    July 10, 2012

  • “So we come here together on the Fourth of July to see what a great people we are; to see how well the generations of our
    dead have done their duty.”

    – Huntington, New York, July 4, 1903

    July 3, 2012

  • “In the ordinary and low sense which we attach to the words “partisan” and “politician,” a judge of the
    Supreme Court should be neither.”

    – Letter to Henry Cabot Lodge, July 10, 1902

    June 26, 2012

  • “The only effective way to help any man is to help him to help himself; and the worst lesson to teach him is that he can be permanently helped at the expense of someone else.”

    – Oxford University, June 7, 1910

    June 19, 2012

  • “When we undertake the impossible, we often fail
    to do anything at all.”

    – Chicago, Illinois, September 3, 1900

    June 12, 2012

  • “An epidemic of indiscriminate assault upon character
    does not good, but very great harm.”

    – Washington, DC, April 14, 1906

    June 5, 2012

  • “Viewed from any angle, ignorance is the costliest crop
    that can be raised in any part of this Union.”

    – Tuskegee, Alabama, October 24, 1905

    May 29, 2012

  • “We cannot do great deeds unless we are willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.”

    – New York, New York, May 30, 1899

    May 22, 2012

  • “The point to be aimed at is the protection of the individual against wrong, not the attempt to limit and hamper the
    acquisition and output of wealth.”

    – Annual Message as Governor, Albany, New York, January 3, 1900

    May 15, 2012

  • “If a party raises an issue which it knows is a false issue, merely for the hope of carrying an election, then that party shows in the most striking way that it is the enemy of the country and unfit
    to be entrusted with its government.”

    – Akron, Ohio, September 23, 1899

    May 8, 2012

  • “A war is primarily won by soldiers; the work of the non-soldiers, however valuable, is merely accessory to the
    primary work of the fighting men.”

    – Metropolitan, September 1917

    May 1, 2012

  • “The distinguishing feature of our American governmental system is the freedom of the individual; it is quite as important to prevent
    his being oppressed by many men as it is to save
    him from the tyranny of one.”

    – Thomas H. Benton, 1887

    April 24, 2012